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By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz.

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I read cover to cover every jazz publication that I could and in the New York Times, every single day reading their jazz reviews even though I didn't put them in the films. I wanted to know what is going on.

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You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with Curt Flood.

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One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes.

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I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

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I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

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I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

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In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

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I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.

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I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 29th, 1953

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